A Preliminary Qualitative Analysis on the Feasibility of Using Gaming Technology in Caregiver Assessment

This exploratory qualitative study examined the feasibility of utilizing gaming technology that will ultimately assess task performance and stress among caregivers of dementia patients. The long-term goal is to use this unobtrusive application (app) to detect caregiver burnout for the purposes of early intervention. This preliminary study examined participant interface with a specific gaming technology called CAST (Caregiver Assessment Using Serious Gaming Technology). Ten dementia caregivers participated. Participants attended a demonstration and then interacted with a preliminary version of the CAST tablet application. Social work researchers interviewed participants using open-ended questions to gauge interest, technology skill level, and comfort with the app. Participants expressed interest and identified potential ways to further develop the system in order to increase ease of use, decrease time commitment, and improve suitability for daily use. The provided feedback will be used to refine the user interface of the application, which will then be used to monitor caregivers’ stress in future development.     

爱的算法殖民化:人工智能时代约会程序算法面临的伦理挑战及其应对策略

晚近十年,人工智能算法获得了长足发展,智能算法被视为解决人类问题的一个全新进路。与此同时,在人类主义的框架中,爱情通常被视为人类生活中最亲密的情感,但它现在越来越多地被少数程序员用人工智能来进行控制或操纵。在当代世界中,许多约会平台正在设计所谓的智能算法来为用户识别更多的潜在匹配对象。这些由人工智能驱动的配对系统通过丰富的数据驱动,不仅能够预测用户可能喜欢什么类型的对象,而且还可以深刻影响人们选择伴侣的方式。对此,基于哈贝马斯的“生活世界的殖民化理论”,批判性地探讨了将浪漫决策委托给算法的潜在影响以及可能由此引发的伦理挑战。通过对Tinder等约会应用程序使用算法的现实分析,指出爱情生活世界正在被殖民化,因为在线约会算法侵入了人们的浪漫关系,以至于浪漫关系中的交往行为被算法的技术规则所取代。为了应对算法殖民化引发的伦理难题,要着眼于从个体维度上弥补算法思维的固有逻辑缺陷,从技术维度上优化算法模型与标准设计,从企业以及约会应用程序设计者的维度上赋予爱情关系中个体更多的自主选择权,据此来探寻未来理想爱情关系“去算法殖民化”的可能性通路。     

嵌入与融合:"两微一端"视域下工会干部媒介素养的培育研究

"两微一端"(微信、微博、移动客户端)是"互联网+"背景下开展工会工作的新平台和新载体。通过对广东工会组织"两微一端"的实践剖析发现,工会干部对新媒介认知存在畏惧困难情绪、惯性依赖心理,媒介选取和运营呈现较大能力差异,媒介制作内容同质性较高、原创性较低。当前工会干部媒介素养尚处于初级发展阶段,要真正实现新媒介技术嵌入与工会干部媒介素养提升的深度融合,需要从技术嵌入到理念提升、个体发展到组织培育两个路径构建培育体系。     

Censoring the Sexual Self: Reflections from an Ethnographic Study of Gay Filipinos on Mobile Dating Apps in Manila

This paper reflects upon Evelyn Blackwood's 1995 ‘Falling in Love with An-Other Lesbian’ essay on love and desire during fieldwork research as it intersects with the figure of the ‘virtual anthropologist’ in Kath Weston's 1997 essay of the same name. My multiple subjectivities (specifically those nativised) enabled and restricted what I considered bonds and differences between me and others during ethnographic research among gay Filipino men using mobile dating apps. I revisit an experience from four weeks of preliminary data collection between May and June 2015 in Manila, Philippines, where I decided not to include a sexual encounter with a research participant named Wesley. Moving forward with my study, my reflections on censoring sexual encounters with research participants helped me to acknowledge several sources of moral anxieties and ethical considerations that influence how this specific testimony took its shape and to consider how to construct and apply a malleable ethic of honesty for current and future projects especially when intimacies themselves are the focus.     

SaaS模式下的网络协作学习技术支持策略——以Google Apps为例

SaaS(Software-as-a-Service)模式是通过互联网提供软件服务的软件应用模式。该模式关注用户的真实需求,具有协作共享等特征,尤其是在网络协作学习中有着很大的应用前景。通过对SaaS模式本身及其典型应用Google Apps的研究,分析了其给予网络协作学习的支持功能,进而提出基于SaaS模式的网络协作学习技术支持策略,以期能为实际教学提供借鉴。     

“帮你逆袭变优秀”:自我优化类移动应用程序的话语分析

从传统的纸笔记录到移动应用程序的使用，自我优化数字化正在成为一种趋势。通过对“时间管理”“运动及身体管理”“休息、冥想”“习惯养成”四类自我优化类移动应用程序在应用商店中的推介文本展开话语分析后发现，兼具“企业家式自我”和“疗愈型自我”,在自我实现的同时保持平静且快乐是自我优化类移动应用程序鼓励和希冀的生活理念。在此目标引导下，应用程序所使然的专注在一定程度上成为具有共通性的技术优化路径。此外，自我优化类移动应用程序在行为提醒、鼓励书写的过程中融入社会期许和生活规范，以数据作为衡量标准对个人进行凝视和引导。自我优化类移动应用程序的相关话语成为社会叙事的缩影，折射、简化甚至限定了个人对自我优化的认知和想象。     

Systematic review on the cost and cost-effectiveness of mHealth interventions supporting women during pregnancy

ObjectivesThe increased integration of digital health into maternity care—alongside growing use of, and access to, personal digital technology among pregnant women—warrants an investigation of the cost-effectiveness of mHealth interventions used by women during pregnancy and the methodological quality of the cost-effectiveness studies.MethodsA systematic search was conducted to identify peer-reviewed studies published in the last ten years (2011–2021) reporting on the costs or cost-effectiveness of mHealth interventions used by women during pregnancy. Available data related to program costs, total incremental costs and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) were reported in 2020 United States Dollars. The quality of cost-effectiveness studies was assessed using the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS).FindingsNine articles reporting on eight studies met the inclusion criteria. Direct intervention costs ranged from $7.04 to $86 per woman, total program costs ranged from $241,341 to $331,136 and total incremental costs ranged from -$21.16 to $1.12 million per woman. The following ICERs were reported: $2168 per DALY averted, $203.44 per woman ceasing smoking, and $3475 per QALY gained. The full economic evaluation studies (n = 4) were moderate to high in quality and all reported the mHealth intervention as cost-effective. Other studies (n = 4) were low to moderate in quality and reported low costs or cost savings associated with the implementation of the mHealth intervention.Conclusions for practicePreliminary evidence suggests mHealth interventions may be cost-effective and “low-cost” but more evidence is needed to ascertain the cost-effectiveness of mHealth interventions regarding positive maternal and child health outcomes and longer-term health service utilisation.